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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for students all over the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 numerous topics that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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