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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally 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 numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Otis College of Art and Design to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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