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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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