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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Micronesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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