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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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