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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have enabled learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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