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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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