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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in electronic education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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