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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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