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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally 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 online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)