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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students 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 numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Pierre and Miquelon to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these new open education ventures. Students want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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