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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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