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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly 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 subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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