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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly 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 issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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