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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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