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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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