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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants 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. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Jersey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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