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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 many issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like San Marino to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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