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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students 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 several issues that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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