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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free 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 a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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