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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are 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 many issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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