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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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