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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning enable people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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