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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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