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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education have enabled learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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