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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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