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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology enable learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free 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 numerous topics that elearning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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