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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 many issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Universities want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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