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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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