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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are generally 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 quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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