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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in 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 online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently 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 variety of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational initiatives. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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