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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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