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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in online learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently 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 several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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