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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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