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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like French Polynesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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