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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 many subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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