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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs 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. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed 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 different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these compelling new open educational undertakings. People want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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