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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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