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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in e-learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for learners 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 many topics that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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