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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the 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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