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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily 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 learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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