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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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