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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are normally free but do not 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 issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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