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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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