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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology enable students all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners 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 variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Researchers want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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