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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners 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 many issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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