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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Iraq to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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