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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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