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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 quite a few subjects that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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