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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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