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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in elearning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively 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 topics that e-learning technology organizations have to consider now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ecuador to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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