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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online learning make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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