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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally 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. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guernsey to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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