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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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