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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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