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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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