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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not 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 issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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