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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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