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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students 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 a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Public servants want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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