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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in elearning have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free 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 quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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