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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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