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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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