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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 elearning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education