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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students 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 a lot of subjects that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Malta to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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