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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education