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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers 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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