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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education enable students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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