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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are almost always 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 quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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