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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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