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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable learners all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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