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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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