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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses 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 numerous subjects that online education institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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