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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free 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 variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines 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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