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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education enable learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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