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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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