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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in blended learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are 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 quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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