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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning enable people all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like China, People's Republic of to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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