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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. These massive open online courses are typically 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 a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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