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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning technology are making it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free 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 numerous topics that learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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