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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always 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 many issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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