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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed 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 organizations like The Bahamas to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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