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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses 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 a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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