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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily 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 a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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