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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are considering today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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