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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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