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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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