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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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