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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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