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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in e-learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always 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 a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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