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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free for learners 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 online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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