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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC 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 numerous subjects that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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