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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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