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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for students 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. People want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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