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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Mauritania to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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