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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 many subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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