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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning enable students all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free 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 a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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