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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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