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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are usually free for students 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 several topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different 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 organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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