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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology enable humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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