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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are normally 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 quite a few topics that online education institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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