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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these compelling new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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