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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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