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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs 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 several issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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