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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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