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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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