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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are 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 numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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