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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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