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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually 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 a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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