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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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