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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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