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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are considering today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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