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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Djibouti to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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