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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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