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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in blended learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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