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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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