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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners 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 topics that blended learning organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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