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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are 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 many issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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