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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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