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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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