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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually 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 a lot of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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