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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students 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 several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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