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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open educational undertakings. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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