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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not 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 elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education undertakings. Trainers want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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