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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for learners 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 quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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