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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically 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 subjects that online education organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Ball State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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