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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education initiatives. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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