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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily 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 quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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