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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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