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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are 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 a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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