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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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