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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these compelling new open education endeavours. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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