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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for students 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 a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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