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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly 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 variety of issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also explores the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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