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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners 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 many issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Luxembourg to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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