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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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