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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Colombia to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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