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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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