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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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