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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning enable students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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