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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs 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 a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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