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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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