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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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