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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education enable students all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Madagascar to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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