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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Albania to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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