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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Chad to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand these open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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