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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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