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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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