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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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