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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers 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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