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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education have empowered learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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