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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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