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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students 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 several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bulgaria to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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