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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students 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 quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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