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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly 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 numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritius to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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