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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in blended learning are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major 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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