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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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