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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are normally 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 several subjects that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education ventures. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important 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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