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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning enable humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not always 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 issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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