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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 several topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational undertakings. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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