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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are generally 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 several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the 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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