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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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