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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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