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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not 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 issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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