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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand these open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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