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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in elearning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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