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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are generally 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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