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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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