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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in elearning technology make it possible for students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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