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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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