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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these new open education endeavours. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the most important 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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