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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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