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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in blended learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily 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 numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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