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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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