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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Denmark to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants need to understand these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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