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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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