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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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