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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically 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 distance learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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