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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free 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 many issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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