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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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