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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Abkhazia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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