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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly 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 topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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