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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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