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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open 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 issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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