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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Researchers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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