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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning have enabled humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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