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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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