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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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