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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free 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 numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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