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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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