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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning are empowering students all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free but do not always 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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