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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also explores 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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