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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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