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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are generally free 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 many subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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