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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily 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 a variety of topics that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jordan to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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