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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are customarily 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 variety of subjects that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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