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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 online education institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive these significant new open education undertakings. Researchers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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