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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Clemson University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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