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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free 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 a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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