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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in elearning make it possible for students all over the world to participate in online classes. 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. Massively open online courses are free 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 many issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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