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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education have empowered learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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