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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning are enabling humans all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 many topics that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these open educational ventures. Lecturers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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