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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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