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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free 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 many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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