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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education initiatives. Scientists want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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