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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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