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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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