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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily 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 subjects that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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