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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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