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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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