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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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