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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners 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 a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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