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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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