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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritania to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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