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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners 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 online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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