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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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