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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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