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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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