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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology enable students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free 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 subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the key 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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