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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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