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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 many issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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