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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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