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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses 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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