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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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