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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in e-learning enable people all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are almost always free 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 a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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