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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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