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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not 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 variety of topics that online learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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