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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the 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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