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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are customarily free 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 several issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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