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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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