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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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