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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are commonly free 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 issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the key 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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