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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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