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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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