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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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