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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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