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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs 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 lot of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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