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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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