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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 several subjects that elearning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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