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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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