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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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