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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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