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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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