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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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