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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly 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 numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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