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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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