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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning enable learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations have to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better understand these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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