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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually 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 many issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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