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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online education have enabled students in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are usually 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Colorado State University-Global Campus to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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