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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in elearning technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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