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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education