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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in e-learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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