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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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