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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these open education endeavours. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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