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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are free for students 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 issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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