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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly 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 many subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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