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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 many topics that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education undertakings. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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