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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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