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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily 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 are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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