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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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