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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in learning technology enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally 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 online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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