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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are generally free 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 online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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