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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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