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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these open educational endeavours. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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