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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always 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 quite a few issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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