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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners 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 many issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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