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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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