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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology make it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free 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 lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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