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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always 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 quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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