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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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