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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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