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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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