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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always 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 variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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