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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are usually 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 several subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rutgers University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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