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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning enable learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally 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 numerous topics that online education organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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