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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in digital education technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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