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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are generally free for students 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 quite a few subjects that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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