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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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