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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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