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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Morocco to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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