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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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