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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in blended learning have enabled humans all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. People want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also considers 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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