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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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