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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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