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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily 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 e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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