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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The Bahamas to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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