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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning are enabling humans in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are commonly 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 lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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