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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

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