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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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