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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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