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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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