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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. 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. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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