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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are generally 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 many issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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