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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily 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 a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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