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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs 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 issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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