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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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