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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in blended learning have enabled students all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving 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 these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this increasing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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