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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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