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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners 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. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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