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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free 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 issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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