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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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