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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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