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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are empowering humans all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are commonly 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 several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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