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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are free for learners 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 a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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