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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the 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 discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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