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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning are providing the means for humans in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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