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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have made it possible for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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