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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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