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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online 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 topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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