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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are 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 subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. People want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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