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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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