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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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