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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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