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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly 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 several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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