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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning enable people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are free for learners 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 quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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