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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly 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 lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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