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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many subjects that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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