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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not 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 numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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