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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online learning technology enable learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free for students 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 quite a few issues that learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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