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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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