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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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