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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in e-learning are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online 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 institutions like Dominica to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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