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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education enable learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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