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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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