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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are usually free 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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