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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners 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 numerous topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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