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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners 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 variety of issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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