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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently 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 blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Libya to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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