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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have provided the means for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Utah State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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