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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for learners 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 numerous issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key 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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