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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education enable students all over the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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