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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly 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 elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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