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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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