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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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