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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning have empowered students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational ventures. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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