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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are usually 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 numerous issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Teachers want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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