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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education enable learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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