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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education initiatives. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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