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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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