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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology make it possible for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free 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. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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