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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 several issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open educational initiatives. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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