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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in blended learning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? 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 institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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