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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of South Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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