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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education ventures. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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