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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Corporations want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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