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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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