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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tonga to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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