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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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