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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education technology have empowered humans all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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