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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning are empowering students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are usually free for students 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 a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education undertakings. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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