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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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