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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in blended learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free 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 several issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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