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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in blended learning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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