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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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