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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online learning have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Chad to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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