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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily 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 lot of issues that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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