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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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