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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently 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 issues that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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