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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have empowered humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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