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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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