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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 several issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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