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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free 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 a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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