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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners 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 subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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