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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always 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 lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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