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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in technology-enhanced learning enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically 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. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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