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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning have empowered students all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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