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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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