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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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