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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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