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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education enable students in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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