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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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