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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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