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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Andorra to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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