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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are typically free for students 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 variety of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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