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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning enable students all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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