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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the major 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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