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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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