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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are ordinarily free 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 numerous subjects that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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