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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 issues that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Lecturers want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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