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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are 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 several issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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