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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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