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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for students 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 e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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