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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students 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 lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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