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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in distance learning technology are enabling students in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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