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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are 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 quite a few issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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