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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly 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 numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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