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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are normally free for students 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 several subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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