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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not 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 a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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