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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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 quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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