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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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