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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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