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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are mostly 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 a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education ventures. Trainers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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