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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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