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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have empowered people all over the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are typically free 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 many subjects that online education organizations are struggling with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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