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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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