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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are usually 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 several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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