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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning enable students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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