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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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