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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students 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 blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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