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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 many topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the most important 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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