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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Iraq to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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