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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally 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 a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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