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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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