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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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