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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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