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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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