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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guernsey to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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