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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not 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 organizations are having to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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