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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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