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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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