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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are almost always 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 numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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