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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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