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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always 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 variety of issues that elearning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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