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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are making it possible for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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