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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students 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 several issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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