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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always 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 subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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