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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online education are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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