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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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