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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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