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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Clemson University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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