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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 a lot of subjects that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education ventures. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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