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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to understand these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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