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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Mauritius to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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