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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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