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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning are empowering students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Boston University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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