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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning enable learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not 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 distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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