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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are generally 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 subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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