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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning are enabling learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand these new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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