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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like El Salvador to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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