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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning enable learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students 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 several subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open education endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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