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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education have made it possible for learners all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not 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 e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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