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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning enable learners all around the world to take online courses. These massive online 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 quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions must deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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