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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free 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 several topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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