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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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