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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not 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 variety of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open education initiatives. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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