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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always 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 issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like San Marino to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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