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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the major 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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