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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students 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 numerous topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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