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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not 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 subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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