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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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