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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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