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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC classes are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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