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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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