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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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