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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 issues that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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