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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are commonly 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 a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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