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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning have empowered learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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