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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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