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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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