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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Virginia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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