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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically 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 topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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