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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly 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 many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers 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 different business models are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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