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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are customarily 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 several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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