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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tonga to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education ventures. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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