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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massive open online courses are customarily 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 numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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