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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational ventures. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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