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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free 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 quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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