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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently 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 variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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