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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free 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 many topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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