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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning have enabled humans all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily 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. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Malta to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources