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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently 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 topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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