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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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