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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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