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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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