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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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