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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning have empowered learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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