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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Yemen to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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