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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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