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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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