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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students 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 a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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