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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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