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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not 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 e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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