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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online learning are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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