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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning enable learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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