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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are 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 quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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