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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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