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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students 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 numerous subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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