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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently 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 lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC 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 organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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