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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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