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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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