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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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