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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 issues that online learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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