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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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