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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students 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 lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational undertakings. Educators want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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