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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are commonly 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 lot of topics that learning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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