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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners 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 quite a few issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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