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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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