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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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