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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students 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 many issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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