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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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