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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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