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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are 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 a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Utah to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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