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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students 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 several topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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