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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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