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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally 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 a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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