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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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