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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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