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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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