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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology make it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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