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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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