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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners 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 a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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