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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOCs 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 several topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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