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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning have made it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners 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 numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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