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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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