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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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