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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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