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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly 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 quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also studies the 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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