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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally 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 many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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