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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for humans all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free 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. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Andorra to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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