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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC classes are typically free for students 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 distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Scientists want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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