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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 variety of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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