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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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