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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are typically free for students 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 many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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